Palestine +100

Stories from a century after the Nakba

Basma Ghalayini, Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh , Ahmed Masoud

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Comma Press
22 August 2019

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Fiction in translation; Short Stories Fantasy; Short Stories Sci-Fi

Series: Futures Past

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event - which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes - reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians? Covering a range of approaches - from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce - these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, peace treaties that span parallel universes, and even a Palestinian superhero, in probably the first anthology of science fiction from Palestine ever.

By: Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh, Ahmed Masoud, Anwar Hamed
Edited by: Basma Ghalayini
Imprint: Comma Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781910974445
ISBN 10: 1910974447
Series: Futures Past
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 22 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Basma Ghalayini is an Arabic translator and interpreter and has previously translated short fiction from the Arabic for the KFW Stifflung series, Beirut Short Stories, published on addastories.org, and Comma projects, such as Banthology and The Book of Cairo (edited by Raph Cormack). She was born in Khan Younis, and spent her early childhood in the UK until the age of five, before returning to the Gaza Strip.